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EvoSpatial: Experience-Driven Skill and Tool Evolution for Spatial Reasoning Agents

arXiv 2610.16679 ↗First posted 12 Oct 2026cs.CVcited by 0

On the map: LLM reasoning → Spatial and embodied reasoning

Abstract (arXiv)

Spatial reasoning agents can inspect tool outputs and repair errors, but reusing these lessons requires preserving both the computation and the conditions that make it valid. We introduce EvoSpatial, a framework that learns from execution experience by updating a library of linked skills and tools. Skills describe procedures, geometric assumptions, and verification steps; tools implement the operations those procedures require. When solving a task, the agent retrieves relevant skills and synthesizes reusable computational functions if existing tools are insufficient. After each task, execution feedback and evidence checks guide skill revision and tool consolidation, without ground-truth answers or benchmark scores. Across 20 benchmarks, EvoSpatial averages 63.9, 4.0 percentage points above the average reported by SpatialClaw. The evolved library also improves held-out and cross-benchmark performance when updates are disabled, and trajectories generated with evolved skills improve supervised fine-tuning, even without external skills at evaluation. Keeping checked procedures on record, together with the tools that support them, lets an agent carry spatial reasoning experience from one task to the next.

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